A 70-year-old high school basketball coach shot and killed one teenager and wounded a second as they attempted to rob him outside the school, Detroit police said.

Ernest Robinson, an assistant girls basketball coach at Martin Luther King Jr. High School, was accosted by two males Friday evening while walking two members of the girls team outside King High, said Officer Cassandra Lewis, a police spokeswoman.

They announced a robbery, a struggled ensued and he pulled a weapon and fired, said Lewis, who added that Robinson is a reserve police officer and licensed to carry a concealed pistol.

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